Public Address | Cafe | Polity: Budget 2016: Fantasyplan

Angela Hart

Tue, 31 May 2016 16:01:37 +1200

YES! It's the beginning of possibility for change, and boy, do we need it.

Alfie

Tue, 31 May 2016 15:46:45 +1200

Breaking news on the Herald. Labour has finally realised that we operate under an MMP system.

Paul Campbell

Tue, 31 May 2016 14:34:21 +1200

Today's Tremain

linger

Sun, 29 May 2016 11:08:06 +1200

One answer to the “why vote National Light?” question is, because otherwise we all get National Dark, and it can get extremely dark down at the bottom when they’re in. But that answer (like the question itself) assumes a FPP mindset. There are other alternatives, however much they may be…

Goodoh

Sat, 28 May 2016 20:42:24 +1200

I haven't posted here in a long time, but I always enjoy reading the posts – great range, well-written etc etc. But how bloody depressing to read the responses to this post. Every media report about National fucking up somehow turns into "but Labour is hopeless because they didn't take…

Michael Meyers

Sat, 28 May 2016 15:30:28 +1200

I'm so old I remember when public address wasn't Rob Salmond's personal NATIONAL IS BAD MMMKAY blog

I like Rob's articles much better when they don't seem like they have come from the printing presses of Labour's PR dept.

There is some good analysis and description of the issues here…

Corin H

Sat, 28 May 2016 10:03:10 +1200

The last year where we have real data now is 2014/5 (released today), when house prices rose 11.1%. As late as May 2015, when that fiscal year was already over, Treasury was forecasting house prices or only 6.8%. They were miles out, even after the fact.

For this year and…

linger

Sat, 28 May 2016 04:47:49 +1200

In the end these two things may roughly cancel each other outA highly unlikely outcome if, guided by these forecasts, the government does precisely the wrong thing about both.

Alastair Thompson

Sat, 28 May 2016 03:39:12 +1200

This kind of forecast bias is due to the methodology of forecasting. Since Crystal ball gazing is considered unscientific the forecast is always for things to return to where they are normally. So in housing's case that means pre-housing inflation madness... (and there is plenty of evidence that NZ housing…

Alfie

Fri, 27 May 2016 09:15:26 +1200

Would that all go into policing the laws that prevent polluting them, paying policy people to write more policy, and or actually filtering the water?

None of the above, according to Russell Norman.

OK, what about water? There's the $100 million allocated to the "Freshwater Improvement Fund".

Sounds good?

But in…

Joe Wylie

Fri, 27 May 2016 08:36:45 +1200

Would that all go into policing the laws that prevent polluting them, paying policy people to write more policy, and or actually filtering the water?

In the meantime, the "farmer" found guilty of diverting a Taranaki stream turns out to be a "landfarmer", i.e. his "farm" was a [[http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/regional/295571/dairy-farmer-fined-for-landfarming-breaches|toxic waste…

Alfie

Fri, 27 May 2016 07:57:59 +1200

Whoops!

David Haywood

Fri, 27 May 2016 07:50:53 +1200

And a lovely tactful spelling correction in your quoted text, Ian! (A word that trips up an awful lot of people...)

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 27 May 2016 07:21:54 +1200

beyond the pale?
three separate budget posts from Rob
it has been 'Salmond chanted evening' indeed...
any more posts and one could take a fence!
;- )

Alfie

Fri, 27 May 2016 06:54:48 +1200

I’m so old I remember when public address wasn’t Rob Salmond’s personal NATIONAL IS BAD MMMKAY blog

I did wonder if three seperate budget posts from Rob was really necessary. One considered post would probably be more effective and keep the related discussion in one place.

SHG

Fri, 27 May 2016 00:31:50 +1200

I'm so old I remember when public address wasn't Rob Salmond's personal NATIONAL IS BAD MMMKAY blog

Mike Graham

Thu, 26 May 2016 20:42:42 +1200

Why does the media report 'over production in Europe' when talking about the global milk market?

Meanwhile, the government continues to put money into irrigation schemes.

Marc C

Thu, 26 May 2016 17:40:23 +1200

Indeed, the whole government agenda, their budgets and whole laissez faire direction are mere fantasy to most of us. The so called “Kiwi dream” is also a fake, it is not what most think it is, as it is simply nothing but a modern day snake oil salesman’s pitch to…

Public Address

Thu, 26 May 2016 17:40:23 +1200

Discussion from blog post.